The other candidate

In Central Hall last week, at a chance meeting with journalists, Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee made a case for why Pranab Mukherjee was not a candidate for the president of India. "His own party has said he is too important to be sent to Rashtrapati Bhavan,&" she said. When asked how she could oppose the appointment of a Bengali as president, she said: "I am an Indian. I am not just a parochial Bengali."

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